Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for October 06, 2015

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Of course he’s stuffing money in his cheeks, winter is coming.

Keeep shaking it and eventually (please put the name of your favorite millionaire here) will fall down from the tree

“Honey needs a new pair of shoes!”

Wonder if this arc will turn out to be either counterfeit money or play money.

I love to see Rat frenzied and near-apoplectic!

Well, this is the easiest way to make a withdrawal from your local branch! Even if you have to fight a cheeky squirrel!

LOL LOL

It Grows On Trees: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044758/

The ‘fuzzy-tailed’ rat could be a relative.

Pig has a coat on. Did it get that cold over night or is he hiding rat’s money in it ?

Hey! Rat could get a job with the IRS!(Sorry, I forgot, he’s rich now he doesn’t need to work…well, until the IRS finds out)

Stop shaking that tree, Rat! Don’t you know:

“The most precious things in life are not those you get with money.” – Albert Einstein

The problem with a money tree is you have to be there to shake it. Rat just lost his freedom.

tree will be bare in no time

If money is made of paper, then, technically, doesn’t it really grow on trees?

(Actually, American money is made of linen so it grows on cotton plants. That’s why it shrinks in the dryer.)

Reminds me of the story “written” by Kurt Vonnegut’s character Kilgore Trout in “Slaughterhouse Five” about a similar tree. It had $20s for leaves to attract people so that they would kill each other around it & it could use their remains as fertilizer.

That squirrel is going out on a limb by hanging out in “Rat’s” tree.

24 hours is a long time to shake your money maker.

Sounds like a little gem from the 50s called “It Grows on Trees” http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044758/?ref_=kw_li_tt

Keel Squirrel! (Then keel Moose.)

Who said “branch office” and who said this is what happened to ACORN?

Is anyone else wondering if a mummified DB Cooper will fall from the tree?

I’m going to plant a tree.

If the squirrel has money stuffed in its cheeks, maybe it’s a little stripper. Or even a Chip ‘n’ Dale dancer. =rimshot=

It would be funny if the Squirrel had said: “You can stuff the money where the sun don’t shine!”

Rat would need a translator though.

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What are Rat and Pig doing in Janet Yellen’s yard?

Do they still get Sumo squirrels?

Bet you he chops it down to try to get all his money at once, only to find none in the tree.

(Just a guess based on Asop’s Fables)

Who salted the tree with money, and when is he going to come by and offer to sell it to rat for 100 times as much as rat will ever shake out of it?

I wanna make a comment about what else of the squirrel’s Rat/Pig shouldn’t touch, but it might get me banned. Use your imagination …

(Hint: 4 letters, starts with N, ends with S)

Rat thinks because something else is producing the money that it’s all his. This is a failing of many, especially those in the 1%.